Stock-watering device.



E. S. JOHNSON.

$100K WATEBlNG DEVICE. APPLICATION HLED DEC-20. 1917.

1,287,033. Patented Dec. 10, 1918.

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prevent further movement of the tank before the said fastening means has been put in lace.

aid finger-piece 19 is long enough to engage with the boxing inner wall below the hinges 3 to prevent rocking of the tank backwardly beyond the limit desired.

Stock, such as hogs or other animals may drink through the opening 13 and the water-level in the tained in the fount by reason of the vacuum in the upper part of the tank, so that a proper level of water is maintained in the tank by passage of water through the ports 17 until the water passes below the level of said ports. Any dirt or refuse which may enter the fount will pass therefrom through the ports when the tank is being refilled, from which it may be flushed periodically when the tank is disassembled from the box.

Various modifications may be made in the construction, dimensions, form and details of my improved device, without departing from the scope of this invention.

Having described my invention,

tank is mainwhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is;

1. In a device of the character described, a boxing, a tank movable from one position to another therein, said tank having an inclosure opening outwardly and provided with a port in communication with the interior of the tank, a boxing-cover hinged thereon provided with an opening, and

means for releasably securing said cover to the boxing in a closed position with the cover-opening in line with the opening of the tank-inclosure when the latter is in its delivery position. w i

2. In a device of the character described,

a boxing open at the top and having a closure for said open top, said closure having Copies of this patent may be obtained for of said tank,

an opening with inwardly-turned flanges, a tank adapted to rock within said tank from one position to another and having a fountain inclosed therein and opening outwardly in linewith said cover-opening and adapted to be surrounded by said flanges when the cover is down and the tank in its delivery position, and said fountain having an opening communicating between it and the interior of said tank.

3. In a device of the character described, a boxing having an opening, a tank adapted to rock back and forth and mounted removably within the boxing, said tank having a fountain-chamber supplied with ports in communication with the interior of the tank, said tank when in one position having its fountain-chamber opening in line with the opening in said boxing. boxing having an 4:. In combination, a open top, a cover for said open top and provided with an opening, a cylindrical tank mounted to rock to and fro in said boxing from a filling to a delivery position, said tank having a port registering with the opening in said cover when the cover is closed and the'tank in its delivery position, means. for releasably securing said tank in either a filling or a delivery position, said tank having an inner chamber opening out wardly through said port, said chamber having a plurality of ports in communication with the interior of the tank below the said opening, air-release port opening into the interior of the tank below said opening and said ports.

Signed at Webster City, Iowa, this 15th day of December, 1917.

. Witnesses F. J. Boon, H. R. ASH.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of l'atents,

Washington, D. G.

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